Word: worked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paint a portrait, it is up to the artist to do his worst, as he sees best. If Cruze wanted some wishy-washy, sloppy, sentimental portrait of himself, he could have had a photograph taken or hired a two-bit painter to do it. I gave him a work of interpretative...
...with a knife. Mighty Jencic just advances slowly, arms out seeking to crush, face murderous. Louie retreats. Baker Krusack commends Jencic: "You've been a worm, but now you've turned over, and you'll stay turned over. . . . Well, there must be rewards for all good work. . . . I will show you another part of the trade, so you will learn it all the faster...
...only camel-neighing. It contains love scenes, whiskey-drinking, and such lines as ''We are two dots in the loneliness" and "The night by the oasis when I read in your eyes." The cast, especially Gilbert Emery as one of those film detectives who combine social welfare work with their profession, and Lois Moran, act and talk competently and at times with distinction. Somehow they subdue the silliness of their material enough to make it distantly credible. The scenarist has retained continuity in spite of the propensity which the villain shares with the hero of traveling amazing distances...
...were hiring 700 new men per day, is about 4% per month. Men under 30 have proved unstable, casual. Mr. Ford is proud of having jobs for men of all ages and Ford employe ages run from 18 to 70. Oldsters, including 20 blind men, are used in inspection work...
Hunky was the Book-of-the-Month Club's July selection (see above). The Literary Guild's was The Wave. Acclaimed a work of genius, The Wave succeeds in being at least unusual. Its 625 pages rehearse the Civil War without telling a connected story, but through 90 separate "stories." Authoress Scott's purpose: to make an impressionistic panorama of people then and how they felt. Her method recalls John Brown's Body, the Civil War in blank verse by Stephen Vincent Benét. Like Poet Benét, Authoress Scott did her writing...